League of Legends - F2P MOBA (like DOTA) part 2

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zebano

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^ This, they're not actually making any changes at all to matchmaking. They might be fiddling with the algorithm for it a little behind the scenes but it'll pretty much be the exact same thing.

yeah it's not been a true Elo system for awhile now but it's close enough that it probably won't affect the quality (or lack thereof) in your games.
 

waterjug

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aaaaaaaaaaaand I'm done. I haven't played a game of full 5 on 5 in about a week, always ends up as 5 v 3, 4 v 4, etc. Last night I kept getting disconnected and reconnecting during the one round I played. This morning I have a notice from the company stating I'd been suspended for a day for quitting out. Seriously? You have people quitting out left & right anytime they start losing or get killed, and I get banned because their servers sucked last night?
 
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crownjules

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Lots of changes in the latest PBE patch. But there's a new item that's kind of cool.

Plate of the Warmage - +30 Armor, +25 AP. Unique Passive: Killing a unit grants 0.5 armor and AP. This bonus stacks up to 30 times. (Recipe: Cloth Armor x2 + Amp Tome + 125g)
 

zebano

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aaaaaaaaaaaand I'm done. I haven't played a game of full 5 on 5 in about a week, always ends up as 5 v 3, 4 v 4, etc. Last night I kept getting disconnected and reconnecting during the one round I played. This morning I have a notice from the company stating I'd been suspended for a day for quitting out. Seriously? You have people quitting out left & right anytime they start losing or get killed, and I get banned because their servers sucked last night?

What you don't see is that those other leavers also get bans. Congratulations on being part of the problem.
 

zebano

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Part of the problem? Didn't realize I was in charge of their server status.

hmm I may have mis-read the DC/Reconnect thing. I thought you quit due to being pissed at your teammates. Honestly though it's very rare that you're the only one having connection problems if it's Riot's servers (and it has been them quite a number of times), it's much more likely your ISP or something local. Also, as others have stated unfortunately anything pre-level 30 is basically meaningless and I really wish Riot would remove it (the leveling process) from the game since it's mainly smurfs at this point.
 

Firsttime

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Lots of changes in the latest PBE patch. But there's a new item that's kind of cool.

Plate of the Warmage - +30 Armor, +25 AP. Unique Passive: Killing a unit grants 0.5 armor and AP. This bonus stacks up to 30 times. (Recipe: Cloth Armor x2 + Amp Tome + 125g)

That's cheap. I would think an item with those stats should cost in the 1400 gold range, not 1160. That can be bought on a level 6 back pretty easy. Definitely a good item and AP mids should get some mid tier armour item. But it shouldn't be that accessible. That combined with Haunting Guise will give excellent defense stats to AP carries in time for dragon fights. AP was overnerfed in the season 3 patch.
 

Fenixgoon

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That's cheap. I would think an item with those stats should cost in the 1400 gold range, not 1160. That can be bought on a level 6 back pretty easy. Definitely a good item and AP mids should get some mid tier armour item. But it shouldn't be that accessible. That combined with Haunting Guise will give excellent defense stats to AP carries in time for dragon fights. AP was overnerfed in the season 3 patch.

you're just sad it's a counter to mid lee sin ;)
 

Firsttime

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Nah haha. My mid Lee will have killed them at least 3 times before level 6 anyway. So it shouldn't be too rough.
 

zebano

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That's cheap. I would think an item with those stats should cost in the 1400 gold range, not 1160. That can be bought on a level 6 back pretty easy. Definitely a good item and AP mids should get some mid tier armour item. But it shouldn't be that accessible. That combined with Haunting Guise will give excellent defense stats to AP carries in time for dragon fights. AP was overnerfed in the season 3 patch.

Meh still doesn't fit into my Ryze build, no mana.
 

Firsttime

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But it is a component of Zhonyas so smart people should get it. Especially if it comes out as is. It's insanely gold efficient. You are essentially paying 125 gold for around 500 gold in stats once it's stacked which is only 30 cs, should only take few minutes.
 

HumblePie

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LOL, haven't played in a bit, but started watching a few streams again. Including some of the tourney's. Is there a tourney every weekend now or something?

Anyhow, practically what I said a few weeks ago, when I last played, that health and HP regen stacking is HUGE right now. Everyone does it. They got rid of blood razor and other % health damage champs. With the reduction of armor/mr in the game, health and health regen are the better tanking stats. Especially since they stack faster, cheaper, and easier. Every game I'm seeing has 3+ players on both teams with 3k+ Health. The team that gets more players at that levels tends to win team fights now.
 

waterjug

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This game is ruined by awful servers and awful quit rates on players. I haven't gone a full game of 5 vs 5 in over a week. Most of my games are ending in 4 vs 3, I just was in a 5 vs 2. Really fun guys.


And the servers are fucking awful. Lag, drops, reconnects 3 times per round. I play games all the time on this computer with no problems staying connected to any other servers from any other company. It's not my connection, it's not my PC. It's their servers.


It's too bad because I like the concept of the game and the execution of it, but the servers are shit, and people drop out constantly
 

waterjug

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AND AGAIN. I've been disconnected 3 times today. Horse shit. I'm running a test at speedtest.net, I come up with 30Mbps/15Mbps...9ms ping. Yet while this is going on I'm stuck on the 'attempting to reconnect' dialogue in the game. This shit just deprived me of a fucking win.
 
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crownjules

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It is really annoying. I played a game last night with Nik and I got the reconnecting box twice. My internet connection was fine as I could browse during those events.
 

waterjug

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It is really annoying. I played a game last night with Nik and I got the reconnecting box twice. My internet connection was fine as I could browse during those events.

yeah it's too bad because I love the concept of the game itself.
 

thejunglegod

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crownjules said:
It is really annoying. I played a game last night with Nik and I got the reconnecting box twice. My internet connection was fine as I could browse during those events.

Phew! So it's not just me with the disconnection issues.



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zebano

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yeah I had one problem with connection on Saturday and when I went to reconnect I got a queue so I haven't played since. I'll probably wait until Friday night to play again since I need a break from the game anyway.
 
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I need to figure out why we did so badly in that 3v3 game.


I'm thinking it was simply 100% mobility and Kayle's ult. Fucking lost every single team fight but the first one.

Also I think Khazix isn't very good in 3v3. He doesn't have the cover of enough champions to properly take out someone.
 

thejunglegod

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There seems to be a huge shitstorm regarding the Goth Annie skin. And they're nerfing Shaco? Really? Isn't his late game already horrible? Posted from Anandtech.com App for Android
 

crownjules

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There seems to be a huge shitstorm regarding the Goth Annie skin. And they're nerfing Shaco? Really? Isn't his late game already horrible? Posted from Anandtech.com App for Android

Yeah, before this the Goth skin was only purchasable with the Digital Collector's pack and it was marketed as an exclusive skin. So they're kind of reneging on that.

In the end though, it's a digital rental and not something anyone actually owns. It's just a bunch of people pissed off because a skin they probably didn't use much and they want to remain special snowflakes in the event of it changing to something people actually want to use.
 
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